AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 June 1930, Page 3

AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

ENGLAND AND AMERICA IN FINAL (United l’ranj Association— By Electric Toieg rap h —Co p yright) LONDON, 30Lh May. Bobby .Tones only won bis way to too final of tin! amateur championship at St. Andrews after a thrilling struggle against a fellow American. Neither of t,lio players ever led by more tlum tJie odd hole, and they were all square at the turn. They were again even at the seventeenth. The crowd lined the distance from the tee lo the green j*. .the deciding eighteenth hole. V eights second si lot was sliorl. while Jones s uas only five feet from the (lag. Jones laul the approach putt dead, while \ oignl was again short and had to hole out with a, lougish putt for a halt and lo save the match. Despite the enormous crowd, there was breathless silence. Voiglil- putted, blit just lipped the hole. Both players, embracing, were almost carried olt by protecting policemen. Roger Wet bored beat \V. b. fTarUo.y, 2 and 1, and will meet Jones in the final on Saturday.

JONES DEFEATS WETHERED LONDON. 31st May. In the amateur golf final Jones beat Wethered.